If this is a diagnstic breakthrough, there'll be some resistence by the diehards who hate change, but what is described here is exaggerated and plays on a tiresome and childish resentment of doctors. Based, IMO, not on the fact that doctors play god, but that they fail to be the god that patients expect and demand. I think patients begin with a great respect for their doctors and hope they will be "god-like" in their ability to help them. But I don't think they realistically believe that. I do think, however, patients resent paying through the nose for a lot of wrong diagnoses. Especially those paid out of your estate.
Ok--I read the lead-in patient example, the plumber with the flail, first thing thought of is "night terrors" which is a kind of seizure, and treated with anti-seizure meds. Not really all THAT rare, and I suspect this is exactly what the patient has...whatever that paroxy stuff works out to be...This would have to be confirmed with MRIs and other tools. What I've just given you, in an unprofessinal way, off the cuff, is a "differential diagnosis"--part of a protocol that doctors **already** do.
Now, this program sounds like a nice, orderly way to go about it. I think it could be really cool.
What I am bemused about is the immediate reaction seen here...like a computerized program of differential diagnosis is a "so there!" payback to all these terrible doctors with their huge egos.
This Weed fellow might just have an ego of his own to coddle.